{"id":17275,"date":"2025-10-28T03:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17275\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T03:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:18:10","slug":"police-investigation-underway-after-bomb-squad-responds-to-bethlehem-neighborhood-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/17275\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigation underway after bomb squad responds to Bethlehem neighborhood | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8212; The bomb squad was called to a Bethlehem neighborhood on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Police, fire crews and the bomb squad responded to an incident in the 700 block of E. Washington Avenue, near Media Street, just before 4:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Some homes on East Washington Avenue were evacuated and the area was blocked off to traffic, according to emergency dispatchers.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders started clearing the scene shortly before 6:30 p.m. and East Washington Avenue was reopened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police remained on scene on Radclyffe Street for hours. Investigators were seen going in and out of a home there, and police tape blocked off the area.<\/p>\n<p>The scene was in the vicinity of Stefko Blvd. in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet released further details about what prompted the response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8212; The bomb squad was called to a Bethlehem neighborhood on Monday afternoon. Police, fire crews&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391],"class_list":["post-17275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-bethlehem-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}